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Re: Unable to Encrypt Drive

Why are there at least 5 partitions on your drive?

Of course, if you really wanted to have some fun, go to Wal-Mart late at night and ask the greeter if they could help you find trashbags, roll of carpet, rope, quicklime, clorox and a shovel. See if they give you any strange looks. --Streaker69

Re: Unable to Encrypt Drive

Well you should have some basic knowledge about partitioning schemes under Linux before running a command like that.
Also thinking about what you are executing helps a lot to prevent deleting a partition with data on it you do not intend to delete.
And yes that happened to me as well, so it is a piece of advice from my own experience

Re: Unable to Encrypt Drive

Originally Posted by KMDave

Well you should have some basic knowledge about partitioning schemes under Linux before running a command like that.
Also thinking about what you are executing helps a lot to prevent deleting a partition with data on it you do not intend to delete.
And yes that happened to me as well, so it is a piece of advice from my own experience

What he said!! ^^^

If there is already data on the drive, then I can kinda understand trying to encrypt sda5, but man, that's a lot of partitions. On my two systems that are full disk encrypted, there are only two partitions, though neither are external drives, the partitioning should be the same. Sda1 is /boot and sda2 is / . /boot is not encrypted, and / is. Maybe if you gave us an idea of the drive's partitioning scheme, we can give you a push in the right direction.

Of course, if you really wanted to have some fun, go to Wal-Mart late at night and ask the greeter if they could help you find trashbags, roll of carpet, rope, quicklime, clorox and a shovel. See if they give you any strange looks. --Streaker69